Florals Sample Set

Four Chronotope perfume samples hand-picked for lovers of the most beautiful stuff of perfumery—florals. Each sample arrives in a generous 2mL sample spray vial. The set contains:

Spite EdT: A rose that is not a rose (that is not a rose, that is not a rose), this melancholic, slightly aquatic, fresh, and green-tinged, gorgeous violet leaf perfume features loads of ashy orris, sandalwood, a light note of toffee, and a touch of crisp, new, (some even say S&M-adjacent) leather—and its moody, atmospheric aura has gained quite the fan following over the years. 

Intra Venus EdP: The epitome of a hyacinth perfume, Intra Venus is built upon a mellis accord, a sheer, floral base popularized in the postwar years of the 20th century that fell out of favor during the Y2K era. And it is dedicated to the late, great Hannah Wilke, an unsung genius and icon of 20th-century art. But Wilke’s legacy was not guaranteed, as art critics of her era shamed and marginalized her due to puritanical opinions that her body of work—which contains thousands of explicit, nude self-portraits—demonstrated she was too pretty and self-absorbed to be a serious artist. Wilke ultimately passed away from terminal lymphoma in the early ‘90s in near-poverty at the young age of just 52, but her final cycle of nude self-portraits, which she called the Intra Venus series and composed almost entirely in hospital upon beginning invasive, intravenous chemo treatments, proved her critics wrong. Wilke is now broadly considered one of the most important feminist artists of all time and perhaps the earliest innovator of what has become our most ubiquitous form of human portraiture: the selfie.

Silueta EdP: Dedicated to another 20th-century artist—this time the towering  figure of Ana Mendieta, who cast her forced exile from her Cuban homeland when she was a child to the United States into hundreds of temporary earthworks she called her Siluetas. To make them, Ana carved an outline of her figure into the natural world—the ground, tree bark, beach sand, and beyond—and then documented the cavity on film and in photos before leaving it for the earth to reclaim that space back over time. This process, Ana claimed, offered her a way for herself to be reclaimed by nature and returned to la tierra madre, her adored homeland, where she felt her spirit and body truly belonged, and the perfume was produced after the perfumer visited the site of the sole Silueta that still exists at the same natural site where Ana placed it more than 40 years ago. Chronotope has never published an official notes list for this perfume, but we have published a list of the natural materials it contains, which you can read here.

Me/dea EdP: On one hand, Me/dea is an orange blossom-centric perfume that mourns and memorializes the state of Florida’s dying citrus groves, which are increasingly paved over to make way for new, industrial and modern community developments. On the other, via its utilization of orange blossom, which supplies the primary fragrance of baby bath products and perfumes used all around the world, Me/dea is a critique of the horror wrought upon children in war-torn regions of the globe. Me/dea achieves this double-duty by amplifying a single, vital aspect of the chemical makeup of natural orange blossom absolute—a molecule called beta-napthyl methyl ketone, whose “napthyl” component is strongly related to the scent of gasoline. In result is a perfume named after the legendary child-killing, monstrous mother of Greek myth, and the slash in the perfume’s name implicates its wearer in her crimes. Which is to say, a perfume that, while ultimately wearable, is also a reflection and reproduction of our modern era’s most heinous realities. Which is to say: an orange blossom perfume that is also a legitimate nightmare and genuine horror. It has even made TikTokers cry.